The transcription captures a live event where hosts are reading out all the incorrect guesses for a "20th anniversary sound" contest, which has been running for some time. The sound in question is a mystery noise that listeners have been trying to identify, with a jackpot awarded at 4:00 PM the previous day. The hosts express nervousness and patience as they go through a long list of guesses, noting that many people have submitted similar ideas. Common guesses include staplers, tape measures, yo-yos, and rotary phones, but none are correct. The hosts reveal that the closest guess has been mentioned, though it's not very close, and they later note that the second and third best guesses have also been listed. The list includes creative guesses like an IUD insertion device, a slinky landing on a step, and a ventilator ventilating. Throughout, the hosts maintain a humorous tone, joking about the absurdity of some guesses and the length of the list. They emphasize that they have read every guess, even repeating some to ensure coverage. The session ends with a few final guesses, including "clicking your tongue" and "dropping the needle on a record," confirming the complete list has been shared. The hosts encourage listeners to pay attention if they hope to win the $20,000 prize.
So for now we are giving you and many of you have been asking for this we are giving you and I don't know how long this is gonna take your patience is appreciated your tolerance is appreciated every single one of the hundred Oh my god, I'm still scrolling are you ready to do this yeah, what did you say Robbie? There's yeah, there's a close to 200 200 guesses now we may repeat ourselves, but I feel like that will serve well because you may not hear one as you didn't hear all of these the first time We will repeat ourselves, okay? Because there are people who guessed the same thing and we will mention every single gas it is arrived It is at its mass maximum jackpot that happened at four o'clock yesterday That's the sound we've been living with for many of us. That's the sound that has burrowed its way into our brains I've been nervous about this for a week that about listing all these yeah I think our job here is to make it interesting and I don't know how we're gonna do that. Oh, it'll be interesting Okay, it's gonna take a minute then you ready for this should we start with the list of all incorrect guesses? Yes I will gas Dylan you tell me if I'm wrong, okay, and then you can too because that'll get boring Okay, Dylan. Yes. Is this a binder falling and landing on a high hard surface? It is not Dylan is it hitting an air hockey puck? It is not is it turning the clicky thing on a gum ball machine? Although maybe you could hear that it is not is it a using a self-inking stamp guess number one? Nope Is it closing the deep freeze it is not wait a second That's a powerful. It's power. Is it using a paddle ball toy? No? No None of these are is it pushing the button to retract a tape measure guess number one there you go I think you're missing the point of the list right none of these are okay. Is it cracking open a beer? It's not it's not closing these soft clothes kitchen cabinet. It's not pressing down a button on a typewriter It is not you using a stapler although that will be guessed many times using a stapler is the most common guess Not just in this round of the 20th anniversary sound but in the history of the 20th anniversary sound Closing the latch on an old school mailbox Nah, huh opening a can of pop although that was one of the earlier guesses and some that we saw a lot of it's not all right The Polaroid camera guess is the 17 guess it is not a toy popper being popped You know opening a glass Lid from a jar for the glass jar No, no, no, no, no pressing a key on a keyboard see and a lot of people thought that releasing a button on a game controller God, we've had a lot of this is just the beginning the striker hitting the edge of a Which is that carom board and Saram board and sliding back? Really wasn't that okay? Releasing a yo-yo and letting it come back. No, yeah, I revealed that I have never been able to master the yo-yo Shocking all the things in my life Dylan. I haven't been able to master that's one of the well here The next guess you mastered time and time again, but it is not pressing a metal ice cream scoop Not using a manual air pump. No dialing of a rotary phone if you remember them at Breaking an icicle off the roof and it hits the ground. That's not what's happening here And then we get our second tape measure guess all right along for okay? We get our second stapler guess Okay, it's not that a latch on a door all the door latches made a big appearance this time. Yeah striking a match No firing electric starting pistol See that's the one it sounded like most to me in here that is that meaning that that's close or that's what it just sounded like That's what it sounded like most to me that doesn't mean it's close at all remember what I've said the whole way through is if it sounds like it It's not a shuffle board disc Puck Puck being placed on a shuffle board and slid slid down the shuffle board. Nope. Nope. Nope. Correct All right, dialing a rotary phone again. Nope. No a cake up getting punctured another great guest That is good. Yeah, it is not that turning on a gas stove. No pressing the trigger on an automatic car gear shifter Dylan slow down. No, we should speed up pressing the trigger on an automatic Not a stapler. Oh another the third stapler guess putting a straw. This is I love this guest This next one it was one of my favorite guesses of all time putting a straw into an a and w lid specifically it is not Chuck in the deck of cards on the table. No Weird pushing a laptop keyboard key. There's another one of those. That's not happening a juju being thrown at the wall That's the day I found out that it's ju juube and not juube. Yeah, it's been a helpful 20th anniversary. Just true Walking in a high heeled shoe. Okay, turning the page on an e-reader pinball launcher. No whipping a yo-yo back towards yourself Another yo-yo, but another wrong guess keep going keep going sucking up a hard item into a vacuum. It is not That's a good one wet mop hitting the floor It's not slapping a sticky hand on the wall as we had that guest yesterday in one Earlier as we were pointing out right now closing the mirror flap on the visor of your car. Oh Taking a slap shot. No a bush bomb rolling a wet paint roller on the wall. No Pressing a button on a suitcase to extend the handle some of these are really good. Yeah Taking a photo with a Polaroid camera using a three-hole punch Dropping a ball onto a pool table a self-encing stamp pulling up blind. What the heck is it then? Okay, keep going keep going keep going chopping potatoes on a cutting board. Okay. No an IUD insertion device Is not that was my favorite one My absolute favorite one and I so wish it was that Opening or unlocking of an iPhone or iPad When an ice pick hits the ice Closing a fridge door and slime ASMR if I could stop us for one quick second sure to point out Because I think it's fun. We have mentioned the guest that is closest to the real guest. Oh, we have we have It's the closest guess we've had it's not that close but it's closest. It's the closest one we have we have mentioned it now That's all I just want to let you know It's not the last one we just mentioned but it's in that first list of guests take a quick break here and dammit typewriter was my guest a text message coming in You really thought that was it huh? No Could it be a whole puncher from school? They'll and go back to one. We read a few minutes ago It is not a whole buncher for school. Sorry. At least you're saying. Oh damn it. It was my guest was the rotary phone Yeah, no, no taking a big bite out of an apple. It's not no printing printer printing off multiple pages. No pressing eject on a CD player Shooting a pellet gun hitting a baseball with a baseball bat and a ventilator ventilating. Yes. Yes. Yes. I love that Yes, I don't know how I miss that one, but a ventilator ventilating it is not and then we've got fridge water dispenser Playing with a finger skateboard a zip-o closing unlocking a measuring tape so it sucks in another measuring tape. Yes Squeezing a styrofoam cup until it snaps. Oh, locking the home screen on a phone. There's another one. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Stacking wooden boards. Sure. A slinky landing on a step. Yep. Yep. Nail gun Closing the lid on a curage machine again hitting the space bar on a MacBook right clicking a mouse. Okay, a knife sharpener Cracking an egg. Sound of a yo-yo. There you go. The yo-yo is the rotary phone again came up the yo-yo and phone were popular this time. Yeah, I click in a ski boot into bindings Plopping down onto a bean bag at that point where we just whatever Almost right popping down onto a bean bag chair. No, have we only this is we're a little more than halfway have we only heard something one guest that was close or if there been a couple that have been close in my opinion one that's been out of a hundred We've read a hundred of these one that's been and I want to make sure that I go on record and saying it's not really that close Cutting a crisp apple into two. Okay, no not that Screenshot from a cell phone. No pressing play on a cassette player on the cassette player with big. Yeah, paper cutter slicing paper Opening a document on a computer taking a photo with an 80s camera. These are all guesses that it isn't right guesses that it is unfortunately yes Clicking a mouse. Okay opening a child safe pill bottle. Yes, clicking the button on a keyboard. Is it that nope? Nope just a lot bouncing on a pogo stick. It's not that rally locking a card or Like a power lock sliding a document into the trash bin on a map. One of life's great joys by the way Very close the pump bottle of lotion. Nope closing an air fryer there a CD being ejected from a car. Sorry. No Smacking an empty toilet paper roll unfortunately. Why are you smacking an empty toilet paper roll at this point You're just doing anything at what place in life Do you find yourself needing to smack a empty toilet paper roll? What am I doing this? I'm walking through the garbage can and I'm like I have in my hand Tap in it tap tap a roof. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just doing anything. Okay. I'm taking a photo With an old polar right camera. I'm not putting a toilet paper roll in the garbage in your bathroom. You should okay I using an electric log splitter. I'd like to interrupt one more time to break in and say that the second best gas has now been gas. Okay The second closest gas has been in that list. That isn't quite that close in the ballpark or not even in the ballpark That's in the cheap seats. Okay. Really cheap seats. All right. A camera shutter No, no camera is already flat iron plates clinking. Yep. Yep. Nope. Nope. We're clicking. Yeah. Clicking clinking flat iron plates. We're going together. I guess I Tate measure again. It's not a tape measure. Are you guys sure about that? Oh, yes, it is ejecting a disc on a next box No, pressing down the game perfection I like that one pulling down the lever on a toaster. No, it's not a slide projector. It's not striking imagine
in some matchbox yet again, it's not closing the magnetic clasp on a purse. A cashier sliding the grocery divider down the track. I like that one. I thought that was a neat guess, but no, wrong. Mailgun, moving a card into a new row on desktop solitaire. Hi, you're dead. That's specific. Here's a text message that's my guess is close and so far not on the list. That's why we're doing this. Okay. And I can't think of any other reason why. Okay. The sound of sending an email. No. Lansing device like a diabetes thing, releasing an office chair down. Okay. Removing the cap from a tube of lipstick, using a self-thinking stamp again, putting the computer mouse down on a paper then sliding it. There's the screen door metal latch. Nope, a washing machine lock. No, that's a good one though. Tab on a small yogurt washing machine and locking. That's pretty good, but it's not. It's bad. It's not ballpark. Nope. Why can't I even say if it's ballpark or not? Don't try to get me in these situations. Okay, clicking a fidget toy, putting the lid back onto a pen, a cleat stepping and sliding on concrete. That's a good one too. Electric locks for a house door, barbecue lighter, using the paper cutter to cut paper again. That's another one here. Snap and peeling a banana. Okay, slap shot. Hold on. Flipping through songs in a jukebox. No. A tennis ball. A banana, yeah. Tennis ball being hit by a racket, poking through new telefoil, pulling off a lid of a felt mop marker. Okay. Oh my God, there's so many. Stable remover, flicking a Beck automatic card, shuffle, or a stopwatch ticking, a view master toy, ignition of a propane torch that doesn't light. I'll interrupt real quickly again to say, our third best guess has now been guessed. Oh, just so you know, if you're paying any sort of attention, you're a pain in my opinion. I have no idea if you're going to hear the same things I hear. Leasing a yo-yo. Is it ever anything to do with a yo-yo, you guys? No. Okay, hucking a global at the wall, so it sticks. What is a global stick? I think it's those octopus legs. I think that's the official name of one of the, if you marry a Washington hot soapy water to renew its stickiness. Yeah. That's what I think a global level. Turning a next picture level or a lever on an old camera. No. Okay, old camera, guys, has been done to death. Not camera. Confetti gun. Nope, no, no, no, no, no, no. Pulling a padlock when you're opening it. No. Pressing the return coin button on an vending machine until you're a coin would never come. No, that's how they got you back in the day, by the way. Mm-hmm. Then they got the view master again, no closing a patio umbrella, no tape measure again, no. Here's the thing, and we know it's going to happen. Eight o'clock, you're going to make a guess for $20,000. What is it a tape measure? It's going to happen. Okay, so we've got starter pistol firing. That one, honestly, how is it not? Switch on a microphone, the button on the door inside the fridge, pressing a button on an adding machine, cards coming out of a card shuffler, putting a battery into a flashlight. Mm-hmm. Okay, we've got cash counter machine, automatic numbering stamps. So many of you. Somebody taking a step in a crock. Joanne has texted it and said, is this list going to take long? Yes. Joanne, the good news is not as long as it is already taken. Yes. We are almost done. And it is not opening a can of pop. No. Or bouncing on a pogo stick or popping the dice on trouble. Who's rolling their eyes at this? This is entertainment. Flipping a solitaire card. No. Pushing the eject button on a cassette player. How many times we got to tell you it's not? Clicking a mechanical pencil or pen. No. Opening a tin of mints, spraying nasal spray into your nostril and stapler again. No. Peeling off a post at note, a hand-tally counter taking the bottle off a soda stream, a hamburger press pushing. You know, more of the good press pushing patties out. Stay focused. Oh yeah, the last sheet of a paper coming out of the printer or lowering the lever on a toast or lever. A lever? A lever on a toaster. We're almost there. Yeah. 13 left. What? Dropping a meatball on the table. Industrial paper chopper. For the third time, I've told you kids. That's not what it is. Sorry. Closing a gap, a gas cap after filling up your car. The air hockey paddle striking the puck, then the puck slides. Okay. Flat iron closing on a hair and being pulled down. That kick flipping a tech deck. Those little skateboards. Yes. I'm opening a fuzzy, a fizzy drink. No. A stapler remover. No. There it is again. Putting a click gel pod in a toilet bowl. Tennis ball launcher releasing a ball. That was Beppers from day one. Telling you, I thought that was. Getting hit with a snowball, snapping your phone back into the case, Robbie. A electric can opener, sticky hand toys, and it is not dialing on a rotary phone. We are done. All of them including yesterdays. That's the final guess yesterday at six o'clock. Another dialing on a rotary phone. There you go. Did you get it all? If you didn't write it down, then that's on you. We told you everything we know. Oh no, there's a few more. A foam dispensing from the hand. So tall. This is two o'clock. Clicking your tongue four o'clock and dropping the meat along to a record. - There you go, that's how we are done. Okay, so there's your complete list.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts are reading out a complete list of incorrect guesses for a "20th anniversary sound" contest.
They mention that the correct answer is among the guesses already listed, though none are very close.
The most common incorrect guesses include staplers, tape measures, yo-yos, and rotary phones.
The hosts note that the third-best guess has been mentioned, but it's still not in the ballpark.
The list includes over 200 guesses, and the hosts repeat themselves to ensure all are heard.
Summary:
The transcription captures a live event where hosts are reading out all the incorrect guesses for a "20th anniversary sound" contest, which has been running for some time. The sound in question is a mystery noise that listeners have been trying to identify, with a jackpot awarded at 4:00 PM the previous day. The hosts express nervousness and patience as they go through a long list of guesses, noting that many people have submitted similar ideas.
Common guesses include staplers, tape measures, yo-yos, and rotary phones, but none are correct. The hosts reveal that the closest guess has been mentioned, though it's not very close, and they later note that the second and third best guesses have also been listed. The list includes creative guesses like an IUD insertion device, a slinky landing on a step, and a ventilator ventilating.
Throughout, the hosts maintain a humorous tone, joking about the absurdity of some guesses and the length of the list. They emphasize that they have read every guess, even repeating some to ensure coverage. The session ends with a few final guesses, including "clicking your tongue" and "dropping the needle on a record," confirming the complete list has been shared.
The hosts encourage listeners to pay attention if they hope to win the $20,000 prize.
FAQs
The sound is a mystery being guessed by listeners, with over 200 incorrect guesses so far.
Using a stapler is the most common guess, appearing multiple times in the list.
The hosts mentioned that some guesses are the closest so far, but they are still not very close—one is in the ballpark, another in the cheap seats.
The jackpot is at its maximum, with a $20,000 prize for the correct guess at 8 o'clock.
The host says the sound has burrowed its way into their brains and they've been nervous about listing all the guesses for a week.
Yes, the host loved the guess of an IUD insertion device and called it their absolute favorite. They also liked the guess of putting a straw into an A&W lid.
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